Active Directory Contracts in Lancashire

Microsoft Active Directory
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire requiring Active Directory skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Active Directory over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 34 20
Rank change year-on-year +8 -14 -10
Contract jobs citing Active Directory 3 8 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.55% 3.14% 7.38%
As % of the System Software category 50.00% 47.06% 54.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 16
10th Percentile £170 £151 £153
25th Percentile £200 £151 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £155 £213
Median % change year-on-year +61.29% -27.06% -8.11%
75th Percentile £334 £184 £342
90th Percentile £385 £200 £513
North West median daily rate £425 £273 £325
% change year-on-year +55.96% -16.15% +23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £26.16 £10.52
25th Percentile - £29.77 £15.04
Median hourly rate - £37.67 £24.37
Median % change year-on-year - +54.55% +77.24%
75th Percentile - £43.69 £34.82
90th Percentile - £46.17 £40.01
North West median hourly rate £22.09 £18.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +19.41% -5.13% +21.01%

All System Software Skills
Lancashire

Active Directory falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 6 17 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 3.09% 6.67% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 29
10th Percentile £200 £152 £154
25th Percentile £289 £208 £156
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £623 £290
Median % change year-on-year -24.70% +114.66% -27.50%
75th Percentile £563 £645 £500
90th Percentile £594 £658 £532
North West median daily rate £500 £440 £440
% change year-on-year +13.64% - +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £27.89 £10.52
25th Percentile - £34.10 £15.04
Median hourly rate - £43.10 £24.37
Median % change year-on-year - +76.87% +77.24%
75th Percentile - £46.37 £34.82
90th Percentile - £47.25 £40.01
North West median hourly rate £22.09 £18.50 £20.07
% change year-on-year +19.41% -7.80% +24.51%

Active Directory
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Job postings citing Active Directory as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Job vacancy trend for Active Directory in Lancashire

Active Directory
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in Lancashire.

Daily rate trend for Active Directory in Lancashire

Active Directory
Daily Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Directory in Lancashire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Directory in Lancashire

Active Directory
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Directory in Lancashire.

Hourly rate trend for Active Directory in Lancashire

Active Directory
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Lytham St Annes -1 1 £150 -25.00%
Active Directory
North West

Active Directory
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Application Packaging
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Break/Fix
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Network Management
1 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) RBAC
1 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft